About the Author

Sharyn McCrumb is the author of The Rosewood Casket, She Walks These Hills, and many other acclaimed novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 179

Reviews

"Some stories wait more than a hundred years for the right teller to come along." --Asheville Citizen-Times "This literate and provocative novel...is McCrumb's best book yet." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) "McCrumb shifts easily back and forth in time, combining police procedural with an old-fashioned historical narrative worthy of Dickens or Jane Austen." --Asheville Citizen-Times "The Ballad of Frankie Silver invites us to pull up a quilt and turn our faces to the fire...dense and lovely." --The New York Times Book Review "From snippets of rural life, scraps of memories, and fragments of tragedy, [McCrumb] has stitched together a vivid American heirloom." --Newsday "A novel of mesmerizing beauty and power." --Richmond Times-Dispatch "One of our most gifted authors...She has never been better in this masterful blend of fact and fiction." --The San Diego Union-Tribune